Backblast

Backblast

17 men pounded the pavement around South Charlotte Middle School for a fairly high intensity low-intensity workout.  Here is what we did:

SSH X 50

IW X 50

Squats X 50

Merkins X 20

Warm up run… 3/4-ish of a mile

Station work by the bleachers:

Dips X 20 / Pull Ups X 20 and LBCs X 20… rinse and repeat… rinse and repeat

Mosey to the track

Warm up lap

400 meters with 15 merkins in each of the “four corners”

Recover with some ab work

400 meters with 5 burpees in each corner

Recover with some ab work

400 meters with 10 CDDS in each corner

Recover with some ab work

400 meters at full speed to finish workout

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Great group of men this morning, with a mix of cagey old veterans and new guys.

Until recently I didn’t really have a reputation as a guy that pulls into the parking lot 30 seconds before the workout, but that seems to be my MO lately.  So, pulled in at 5:29:30, and lucky me… the PAX were already in a circle.  So, I jumped right in and off we went.

Gummy accused me of not planning my workout.  Not true.  I gave it deep thought from about 5:25 – 529AM.  Workouts should never be too scripted, right?  I’d rather keep it free-flowing, like a [very short] Grateful Dead concert.

Bratwurst and I noticed while doing pull ups that the men of F3 are putting a hurtin on what used to be grass under the hand rails used for pull up bars.  I guess that’s what happens when you have grown men tearing up the campus four days a week.  Speaking of Bratwurst, who says the guy doesn’t do bootcamp workouts?  I saw him do merkins and burpees with my own eyes today.

I told Fireman Ed he was looking trim today, but his response was that he’s “still 220”.  Hey man, you wear it well… plus, you can’t be some skinny New York Jets fan anyway.

Booyah has been a regular at various South Charlotte workouts for quite some time now.  Always pushing it out there… and always with that high-top hat [which I hope gets washed from time to time].

Great to see Smash… one of the Base Camp originals… still going strong.

I neglected to write down names from the workout today.  I think I got about 95% of the names right, but made a few educated guesses at the end.  My contract with F3 says my backblasts don’t have to be accurate, so please forgive me.